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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Cat is taking a ride in a car for the first time
Cat contemplates with jaw-dropping amazement the things seen outside the windows of the moving car it's in.
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Pedobear on the news
Here's a KRQE News 13 report about Pedobear will make you wanna quote Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth.
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Stanley from 'The Office' has a music video
Leslie David Baker aka Stanley from The Office as you've never seen him before: here's his debut single 2 Be Simple (featuring N.U.M.)
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Monday, November 28, 2011
Soldier from Afghanistan suprises daughter in class
Alexis is in school and she's in for a tearful surprise.
Welcome Home Blog
Previously: Halloween surprise
Welcome Home Blog
Previously: Halloween surprise
From the archives: 15-year-old Mick Jagger
The year is 1959 and young "Michael" Jagger models for rock climbing shoes with his father on BBC TV's Seeing Sport, making his first TV appearance.
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The human jet
Aviation enthusiast Yves "Jetman" Rossy demonstrates his new jet engine-powered wing suit by flying in formation alongside two of Breitling Jet Team's L-39C Albatros jets over the Swiss Alps.
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
Video game urinals
It's the future: Urine-controlled video games installed in London bar:
Going to the loo has never been more fun, after the world's first urine-controlled video game is installed in a London bar. Visitors at the The Exhibit Bar in Balham can play one of three games every time they use a urinal.
The video game has been trialled in a bar in Cambridge since mid-July and it has proved to be both popular and profitable. One of the game's co-founders, Gordon MacSween, was not sure how the public would react to the game initially. But as soon he saw the game on trial at a bar in Cambridge he knew he was on to something good.
The game was designed to create a valuable media opportunity from the 55 seconds the average male spends while he pees just staring at a blank wall. There is an advert played before and after the game promoting a drink you can buy at the bar
Time-lapse video of the day
Don Rob shares the evolution of his wife's pregnancy with their daughter Althea Elicona in a very creative time-lapsey manner.
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60 seconds adventures in thought
Some famous thought experiments explained by David Mitchell (of Peep Show and Mitchell and Webb).
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Child pornography on a plane
From Associated Press:
Police say a man who was viewing child pornography on a domestic airline flight from Salt Lake City to Boston has been arrested.
Massachusetts State Police say 47-year-old Grant Smith was sitting in first class Saturday afternoon when a fellow passenger saw the pornographic images on Smith's laptop and alerted the flight crew.
When the Delta flight landed at Boston Logan International Airport just after 4 p.m., troopers interviewed Smith and subsequently arrested him.
He has been charged with possession of child pornography, and police say additional charges could follow. His bail is set at $15,000. He is scheduled to be arraigned Monday.
Smith was in police custody Saturday night and couldn't immediately be reached for comment.
NYPD disorder control guidelines
An #OWS protester claims to have found this NYPD memo in the back of a police van while he was being arrested.
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Friday, November 25, 2011
International trick shot battle
Frisbee specialist Brodie Smith, whom we previously seen opposite the guys from Dude Perfect, is now battling Australian basketball trick shooter posse How Ridiculous.
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Tattoo artist gets revenge on his girlfriend
From VeryWeirdNews.com:
Tattoo artist, Ryan L. Fitzjerald was hit with a $100,000 lawsuit last week by his ex-girlfriend Rossie Brovent. She claims that her boyfriend was supposed to tattoo a scene from Narnia on her back but instead tattooed an image of a pile of excrement with flies buzzing around it.
Apparently Ryan found out that she had cheated with a long-time friend of his and this was his way of getting even. Originally Rossie tried to have Ryan charged with assault but it turns out this crafty tattoo artist got her to sign a consent form prior to the tattoo and it said that the design was 'at the artists discretion', she claims; "he tricked her by drinking a bottle of cheap wine with me and doing tequila shots before I signed it and got the tattoo". "Actually I was passed out for most of the time, and woke up to this horrible image on my back."
Chart: what animal is the cutest
According to a study conducted by Twitter-friendly URL shortening site Bitly, dogs rule the Internet over cats, contrary to what you have thought.
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
Today is Update Your Parents' Browser Day
Since you're home for Thanksgiving, spare a minute on your parents' computers and update their Internet browsers.
This year, though, do something different. Don't just explain to Grandpa or Mom or your father-in-law that there is a whole world of secure web browsing out there. No, take a firm stand. Tell them they won't be able to watch funny fishing videos on YouTube with IE6 anymore. Usually, by this point, most parents are begging for help and you can extract excellent perquisites for your labor. That big bedroom your little sister got for some reason? Now's the time to finally occupy it. While you're at it, you will probably fix (or set up) the wifi, which you can helpfully explain is like Internet particles floating in the air.The Atlantic | via
Real-time bicycle animation
Katy Beveridge creates a basic phenakistoscope-like animation as a school project by sticking different shapes on a bicycle's wheels and then taking it for a spin.
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Lego Freddie Mercury
It was twenty years ago yesterday that Freddie Mercury has passed away. Lego enthusiast Ian Heath aka Ochre Jelly honors the legendary Queen front man with his piece Fried Chicken!
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Nine-year-old covers Rage Against the Machine
9-year-old Ryan Watson is on stage at Rock The Farm festival in Fredrick County, Maryland, in May 2011, covering Rage Against the Machine's Killing in the Name like a natural born rocker.
Also: Ryan does Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train
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Previously, in precocious rockers: The Mini Band covers Enter Sandman
Also: Ryan does Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train
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Previously, in precocious rockers: The Mini Band covers Enter Sandman
Four degrees of separation
Forget what you knew about the Six degrees of separation - the idea that everyone is on average approximately six steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person on Earth, so that a chain of, "a friend of a friend" statements can be made, on average, to connect any two people in six steps or fewer. Courtesy of Facebook, we are now only four steps away from any other person on the social networking site, including Kevin Bacon.
Using state-of-the-art algorithms developed at the Laboratory for Web Algorithmics of the Università degli Studi di Milano, we were able to approximate the number of hops between all pairs of individuals on Facebook. We found that six degrees actually overstates the number of links between typical pairs of users: While 99.6% of all pairs of users are connected by paths with 5 degrees (6 hops), 92% are connected by only four degrees (5 hops). And as Facebook has grown over the years, representing an ever larger fraction of the global population, it has become steadily more connected. The average distance in 2008 was 5.28 hops, while now it is 4.74.Facebook Data | via
Thus, when considering even the most distant Facebook user in the Siberian tundra or the Peruvian rainforest, a friend of your friend probably knows a friend of their friend. When we limit our analysis to a single country, be it the US, Sweden, Italy, or any other, we find that the world gets even smaller, and most pairs of people are only separated by 3 degrees (4 hops).
Russian newscaster gives Obama the finger
Or, at least, that what it looks like:
Tatyana Limanova, an award-winning senior newsreader at REN TV channel in Russia, was reading out an item about how Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has just assumed the rotating chairmanship of the Asia Pacific Cooperation organization, a post previously been held by Barack Obama, right before she did the obscene gesture.
Tatyana Limanova, an award-winning senior newsreader at REN TV channel in Russia, was reading out an item about how Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has just assumed the rotating chairmanship of the Asia Pacific Cooperation organization, a post previously been held by Barack Obama, right before she did the obscene gesture.
The channel, which goes out to 120 million people across Russia, has declined to comment. But sources close to it have tried to defuse the row by claiming that the newsreader had believed she was off camera at the time and merely providing a voice-over for a report. According to the same storyline, the rude gesture was intended for studio technicians who had been trying to put her off her stride.The Telegraph
Lady Gaga sings "Happy Birthday" into girl's crotch
So Youtuber imyourhooker went to a Lady Gaga x Terry Richardson book signing, where for some reason, she wasn't allowed with her cell phone, so she hid it in her pants, while it was audio recording. Since it was her sister's and her dad's birthday, she asked Lady Gaga to whisper "Happy Birthday" into her crotch. This is the result:
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Pixelated beagle
For a fine arts project at his university, Joel Brochu recreated Shingo Uchiyama's photo Be Patient of a beagle getting showered, with sprinkles. He used 221,184 of them and he spent 8 month completing it.
More pics of the process - on his Flickr photostream
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Hamish & Andy's gorilla prank
Australian comedy duo Hamish & Andy troll the visitors of Werribee Open Range Zoo, by dressing up as gorillas and acting like them for a while.
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Octopus walks on land
An octopus at the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve in California walks out of the water to check out the surroundings. Of course, you realize we are all doomed.
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Roy Lichtenstein Halloween costume
For this year's Halloween, Sarah Hoke Thomson went as Roy Lichtenstein's Oh, Jeff ... I love you, too ... but
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Sophia Grace and Rosie at the AMA's
After the whole Internet fell in love with her Niki Minaj performance, and after being a guest on Ellen (twice), Sophia Grace Brownlee and her silent friend Rosie are once more wearing their tutus, this time interviewing celebrities on the red carpet at the American Music Awards.
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Mug shot of the day
24-year-old Michelle Watson was pulled over for DUI in in Prescott, Arizona, on Thursday. According to police reports, she:
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* Hit "numerous curbs" and drove on the sidewalkHere's her mug shot:
* Said, "I don’t have to walk fucking anywhere" when approached by a cop
* Shoved an officer after declining to take field sobriety tests
* Had to be taken to the ground while scuffling with a cop
* Kneed a second officer in the crotch while being handcuffed
* Repeatedly cursed at police
* Kicked the inside of a squad car
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Arnold Schwarzenegger's Conan the Barbarian DVD commentary
After the commentary on Total Recall was leaked, it's time for Arnold Schwarzenegger to prove once again that he is indeed a master commentator of his own movies, this time opposite writer/director John Milius, on the Conan movies.
(In case you're wondering what's with the face of Walter Sobchak, Milius looks a lot like him)
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(In case you're wondering what's with the face of Walter Sobchak, Milius looks a lot like him)
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Pepper Spray Cop shirt
UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike has made his way on a tshirt in the Casually Butterfly Everything stencil form.
The Casually Butterfly Everything shirt is available on Etsy, for only $12.
From the archives: Radiohead songs from 1986
Before guitarist Jonny Greenwood joined Radiohead, the band was called "On a Friday", after the day they were usually rehearsing at their school, in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK.
Here are two of their demos, played with saxophonist Raz Peterson in the year 1986, one year after the original band came together. The tracks were uploaded to Youtube by user klootme, whose husband was given the tape by the band who he was school mates and good friends with.
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Meanwhile, in Soviet Russia
When it comes to citizens arrest, Soviet Russia is not a good place for you to be in if you're a cop.
Redditor Direnaar offers a translation:
Redditor Direnaar offers a translation:
"Did you call the cops?" -"Yes cops are on the way"via
To the "cop": "Where's your badge number? Where's your badge?"
The last few sentences were probably on the phone to the cops "No badge, car number is such-and-such, the policeman started choking a young man inside his car without provocation.."
Kanye and his posse
Below: from left to right: Don C (Kanye's manager), Taz Arnold aka Ti$a (fashion designer), Chris Julian (fashion designer), Kanye West, Fonzworth Bentley (hip hop artists' assistant), at Paris Fashion Week, in 2009.
Above: Kanye "Gay Fish" West and his entourage in South Park, season 13, episode 5.
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Chuck Norris advertises the World of Warcraft
The people at Blizzard Entertainment have just stepped up their game by getting person of infinite badassery Chuck Norris, to be an advocate for their game, World of Warcraft.
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Obama gets a note
While President Obama was shaking hands along a rope line in New Hampshire yesterday, one of the people in the crowd handed him a note. AP photographer Charlie Dharapak zoomed in on it. Transcript:
Mr. President: Over 4000 peaceful protesters / have been arrested / While banksters continue / to destroy the American economy (with impunity) / You must stop the assault / on our 1st ammendment rights [sic]. / Your silence sends a message / that police brutality is ac(ceptable) / Banks got bailed out. / We got sold out.via
Nickleback responds to the NFL petition
In case you haven't heard, The Detroit Lions have started a petition to replace Nickelback as the halftime show for their Thanksgiving game against the Green Bay Packers. Nickleback heard, because here they are responding to it.
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Kid has a Portal bedroom
Little Vector Farr's parents have made him a Portal-themed bed room, complete with Portal-themed bathroom.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Extreme alpine coaster
Youtuber davidjelli rides the single-rail alpine coaster in Mieders, Austria, without using the brakes.
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How to dance in a club
Ashley Rivera is going to show you how to dance in a club. Because she knows "some people who don't know how to dance in a club or have absolutely no idea what to do."
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Novelty Twitter account of the day: PepperSprayPike
Besides becoming a meme overnight, UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike has also got himself a fake Twitter account.
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Blind kitten plays with toys for the first time
Oskar the kitten was born without full formed eyeballs so he's completely blind. Here he is, 1 daya after he was adopted, playing with a ball with bells inside.
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Pizza sleeping bag
The Slice of Pizza Sleeping Bag w/ Veggie Pillows is made on command by B Fiber and Craft Emporium.
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Meme of the day: Peper Spray Cop
Lt. John Pike, famous for pepper spraying sitting UC Davis protesters, is inevitably all over the Internet today.
Pepper Spray Cop/Casually Pepper Spray Everything Cop
Pepper Spray Cop/Casually Pepper Spray Everything Cop